Employers

With more than 25 years in recruitment, Park Street People’s key focus has never changed: provide first-class, professional recruitment solutions to the clients and candidates that we work with on a daily basis.

What is your recruitment problem?

Niche/hard-to-fill roles

Sensitive vacancies

Sourcing time constraints

Poor service levels from existing suppliers

Massive growth plans

Urgent temporary hires

Lack of internal recruitment knowledge

Poor employee retention levels

Slow time to hire

Niche/hard-to-fill roles - Our Solution

If you need to recruit specialist/niche skills within the UK or internationally, it can be a real challenge, however there are ways to make your search successful. Obviously using a recruiter experienced in sourcing these skills is a great help.

At Park Street People, we encourage a wider remit to find the niche talent you need, someone who ticks some rather than every box and offers transferable skills - as that elusive individual may not actually exist!

Also cultural fit is now as important as qualifications – hard skills can be taught but soft skills are harder to learn. Look outside your industry – many skills are 100% transferrable across sectors, - individuals with different backgrounds can really diversify your workforce.

Sensitive vacancies - Our Solution

Sometimes you need to recruit for a vacancy that is of a sensitive nature, for example you could be looking to appoint a new executive level post to assist on a business critical project, or you need to replace existing staff but its not appropriate to publicise the fact due to negotiations with current employees. It could be that you have had to cut headcount in certain areas but need to recruit within others, perhaps within other countries. All of these situations mean you need a recruitment campaign that remains confidential in nature with a sensitive approach from suppliers who recruit on your behalf.

Park Street People have regularly supported clients with recruiting for this type of vacancy and we work very closely with companies to ensure that campaign management is conducted with the utmost discretion and respect for all stakeholders.

Sourcing time constraints - Our Solution

Reducing the time to hire is about being ready to act when you need to. Prior planning for work peaks throughout the year, identifying the skills and experience needed for business critical projects – for all of these, you should ideally be able advertise or brief on a vacancy within 24 hours of deciding to recruit.

However, in reality, this does not often happen due to resource constraints, business priorities and of course, that old enemy, time. These can all contribute to elongating the whole recruitment process, and in these days where response times for everything have been massively downsized, you could be in danger of missing out on the best talent for your business.

Outsourcing the process, or parts of it, to Park Street People can considerably shorten the time to recruit, lower the impact of additional work on your current resource and give you access to a robust network of skills and experience.

Poor service levels from existing suppliers - Our Solution

Historically the UK recruitment industry has not had the most positive image and while industry bodies like the REC and APSCo have introduced high quality standards and best practice, service levels from non- accredited recruiters can be questionable.

Whether your recruitment need lies within the UK or internationally, there is no business value in sacrificing what you require simply to hire the wrong people faster, or cheaper. Working with a reputable recruiter with proven quality standards combined with an international focus if required, is a worthwhile investment, ensuring you get the skills you need, were you need them, first time, every time.

Massive growth plans - Our Solution

If you are looking grow your headcount significantly, it’s important to ensure you are sourcing the right candidates to represent your organisation and your values. However volume recruitment can sometimes make this a real business challenge.

Outsourcing the whole process or specific elements will ensure your focus remains on the business, whilst our focus is entirely on sourcing the skills you need to ensure your growth plans can come to fruition. We create a structured plan, set achievable targets and manage responses and screening with clear processes. We also support with on-boarding and retention too as a matter of course.

Urgent temporary hires - Our Solution

If you need to recruit for a specific, time sensitive business project, ideally you need to be able to choose from a ready qualified pool of suitable talent. That kind of network takes time to develop and is something that Park Street excel at.

So when your business has an urgent temporary requirement, working with a partner who already has access to that network of skills ensures you could have well matched and suitably experienced individuals on-board and ready to hit the ground running in as little as 24-48 hours.

Lack of internal recruitment knowledge - Our Solution

Good recruitment requires organisations to look at what they have to offer and promote this to a variety of different candidate audiences. So, where do you look, what tools do you use, how much will it all cost – in fact, where do you even start?

The best recruitment strategies offer tried and tested solid best practice techniques and unique approaches that we can align with your organisation’s goals. Partnering with a recruitment consultancy with a 25 year heritage in sourcing and placing talent across a wide range of industries and disciplines, throughout the UK and beyond, guarantees you get the recruitment solutions and ultimately the staff that are right for you.

Poor employee retention levels - Our Solution

Top talent is in high demand right now, so if you aren't making your most valued workers happy, another company definitely will. While there will always be natural attrition in any business, there are a range of factors that can ensure you retain your key employees.

An integral part of Park Street’s service focuses on ensuring that any candidates we shortlist for your vacancies not only tick the boxes with the skills and experience they can offer but that they also closely align with your vision, values and culture. Our extensive recruitment experience honed over 25 years has shown this to be a critical component in ensuring you retain them in the mid to long term.

Slow time to hire - Our Solution

Time is an important factor in recruitment. For every day you're without an employee you could be causing a knock on effect across the business.

Finding candidates is one thing, but speeding up the process of interviewing and decision making is just as important. However, managing the process adds to an already full workload. Most importantly, for active job seekers, time has been massively downsized. Nearly a third of us respond to work emails within 15 minutes, texts within seconds, so that’s how we respond to attract the best talent for your business: fast and decisively.